Don’t let the gorgeous face and sexy physique fool you — Megan Fox is no ditz. In fact, the 28-year-old actress gets a kick out of folks who think she is.
“I would say most people assume that I’m not very smart or educated or earnest because I have this image that I’m sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me,” Fox said for the April cover story in Harper’s Bazaar Arabia.
It makes me laugh because I’ve done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I’m not your typical music video model,” she added.
Fox did appear in Eminem and Rihanna’s 2010 music video for “Love the Way You Lie,” but she still considers herself a serious thespian although her acting skills have come into question in the past.
Besides her most recent starring role in 2014’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” her acting creds include two “Transformers” flicks, romantic comedies like “This is 40,” and the horror film “Jennifer’s Body.”
The people whose opinions matter liked it, so I’m OK with that,” Fox said about director Quentin Tarantino, who praised her performance in the Karyn Kusama-directed thriller also starring Amanda Seyfried saying, “‘I really liked ‘Jennifer’s Body,’ you were really good in that.'”
Just as she treats the feedback received from her work, Fox has never been one to really give people’s opinions of her much weight.
“I never liked school as I don’t do well with authority figures putting boundaries on me, so it’s always something I’ve acted against,” she told the mag out April 1.
Fox’s upbringing in general was filled with what she felt were constraints on the ability to be her true self.
